[Retros] Accidental retro

[Mario Richter]

Noam wrote in repsonse to my remark:

>> I think this position is misprinted, the correct place

>> of the white king might be: Kh8.



> Do you have a source for this correction?


No, this was only a suggestion by me, trying to find a position
which makes it a correct #2-problem with the solution given in
the book.


> ... Does the book mention the retroanalytic content in the

> solutions section?  For that matter, what does it give as

> the solution of #2940?


The solutions presented in one of the appendices of the book
are of the following format:
Name, year, keymove.
No mentioning of threats, set-plays or retroanalytical content.

For #2940 it gives:
L. Szász, 1927, 1.Ne7

This surely refers to the hungarian composer Dr. Lajos Szász (1906-1929).

Interestingly, he has composed some retro-problems too, eg.
www.softdecc.de/pdb/search.pdb?expression=PROBID='P1012852'
or
www.softdecc.de/pdb/search.pdb?expression=PROBID='P1012848'

so the retroanalytical content in #2940 might well have been
intentional.



> Evidently you've spent much more time with Polgar's book than I.


No. But I used the orthodox mate-in-n problems of that book as a
test suite for my own little solving program.

So after I received your posting on the retros mailing list,
I looked what my program had said about this problem.
And its verdict was: "Illegal position. Black has no last move."

The same statement was made for the Baird problem, in contrast to
the Polgar book, which gives 1.Nc6 as solution for #1513.

greetings
  mario



P.S.: One nice problem of L.Szász is the following two-mover:

W: Kc7 Rh7 Re3 Bg8 Nh4 Pe2 Pf7 Pf4
B: Ke7 Be4 Pf5

fen = 6B1/2K1kP1R/8/5p2/4bP1N/4R3/4P3/8

Falkirk Herald, 1926
8.Price
Mate in 2
  _________________
 |                 |
 | . . . . . . B . | 8
 | . . K . k P . R | 7
 | . . . . . . . . | 6
 | . . . . . p . . | 5
 | . . . . b P . N | 4
 | . . . . R . . . | 3
 | . . . . P . . . | 2
 | . . . . . . . . | 1  (8+3)
 |_________________|
   a b c d e f g h